These Easy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars are the finest form of comfort food! Tender, gooey chocolate chip cookies in bar form are perfect for baking and slicing into squares whenever a craving hits!
I’m in trouble. Trouble with a capital “T” and that rhymes with “C” and that stands for COOKIE!
Ok, I am a dork. I couldn’t possibly be the only one out there forced to watch and re-watch The Music Man EVERY year in grade school music class. That and Oliver!, right? However, that one applies here too. “Please, sir, can I have some more?” Uh, yeah, more cookies…
Alas, these cookies ARE the reason I’m in so much trouble…or the fact that I made them TWICE last week. UH-oh. They are comfort food at its finest and it is only August! I mean, I usually have at least a month left until fall is in full swing and I am am craving homey, comfort food. Trouble, my friends. If I’m craving comfort food NOW…what is going to happen when the temperatures drop and there’s stew in the crock? I am going to be in sweats all winter…and not because I am cold…because of the elastic. Dude, I’m in trouble.
Here’s the thing with these cookies…actually cookie bars…I haven’t reinvented the wheel. I actually make them when I feeling like chocolate chip cookies, but am too lazy to bake multiple batches. They are chocolate chip cookies in bar form. Changes the whole situation…whether you like the soft middle bars or the crispier edges everyone is happy…
Preheat to 350
2 3/4 cup AP flour
1 teaspoon coarse sea salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 sticks butter (1 cup)
2 cups chocolate chunks (I used Nestle)Whisk dry ingredients together, set aside.
Cream butter and sugars together approx 2 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time mixing until incorporated. Add vanilla. Slowly stir in dry ingredients until combined. Add chocolate chunks.
Spread in a greased 9×13 pan.
Bake for approximately 20 minutes until golden and center is just set.
Let them cool before you cut them into squares if you have self-restraint. Otherwise eat with a spoon out of the pan…no judgment, especially if you are in sweats.
You’ll go to the gym tomorrow, right 😉
PrintOk, I am a dork. I couldn’t possibly be the only one out there forced to watch and re-watch The Music Man EVERY year in grade school music class. That and Oliver!, right? However, that one applies here too. “Please, sir, can I have some more?” Uh, yeah, more cookies…
Alas, these cookies ARE the reason I’m in so much trouble…or the fact that I made them TWICE last week. UH-oh. They are comfort food at its finest and it is only August! I mean, I usually have at least a month left until fall is in full swing and I am am craving homey, comfort food. Trouble, my friends. If I’m craving comfort food NOW…what is going to happen when the temperatures drop and there’s stew in the crock? I am going to be in sweats all winter…and not because I am cold…because of the elastic. Dude, I’m in trouble.
Here’s the thing with these cookies…actually cookie bars…I haven’t reinvented the wheel. I actually make them when I feeling like chocolate chip cookies, but am too lazy to bake multiple batches. They are chocolate chip cookies in bar form. Changes the whole situation…whether you like the soft middle bars or the crispier edges everyone is happy…
Preheat to 3502 3/4 cup AP flour
1 teaspoon coarse sea salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 sticks butter (1 cup)
2 cups chocolate chunks (I used Nestle)Whisk dry ingredients together, set aside.
Cream butter and sugars together approx 2 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time mixing until incorporated. Add vanilla. Slowly stir in dry ingredients until combined. Add chocolate chunks.
Spread in a greased 9×13 pan.
Bake for approximately 20 minutes until golden and center is just set.
Let them cool before you cut them into squares if you have self-restraint. Otherwise eat with a spoon out of the pan…no judgment, especially if you are in sweats. You’ll go to the gym tomorrow, right 😉
Easy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 36 squares 1x
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
Easy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars are the finest form of comfort food! These soft and tender dessert bars are perfect whenever a craving hits.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon coarse sea salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 sticks butter (1 cup)
- 2 cups chocolate chunks (I used Nestle)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Whisk dry ingredients together, set aside.
- Cream butter and sugars together for approx. 2 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing until incorporated. Add vanilla.
- Slowly stir in dry ingredients until combined. Add chocolate chunks.
- Spread in a greased 9×13 pan.
- Bake for 20 minutes, until golden and the center is just set. Let the cookies cool before cutting them into squares.
Keywords: easy cookie bars, bar cookies, dessert bars
Can I be honest? I read the intro to this recipe and thought “these look good and all, but COME ON. Are they really that good?” uhm…yes. Yes, they are THAT good! I can’t WAIT to try more of your recipes. I might as well just throw my skinny jeans OUT!
Yum! Bake them in little ramekins and underbake just a bit for a great cookie experience. Everything but your pants will thank you!
My husband LOVED The Music Man and I began singing as soon as you started this post!
Oh, now we're ALL in trouble!!!
These bars look delicious! I would do extra hours at the gym to be able to eat as many as I want of them 🙂
Ditto on the sweatpants comment! Blogging about food is hard on the waistline! Yummy, naughty bars!
I LOVE your blog and all the creative-ness! I wish I had half the imagination you have! I'm going to try a few of your yummies over the weekend for a "back to school" teacher treat basket…have to start "racking" up points early in the year!
Thank you for sharing
Yum, I want trouble and a pan of those! They look and sound wonderful. MMMMMmmmm.
~ingrid
These look too easy to not make tonight! Yum!
tracy…uh,YEAH!! I had to get these off my camera, everytime I turned the darn thing on I saw them…and they are too easy to NOT make!